The Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Collinas was the venue of the National Catholic Bioethics Center's 24th Seminar for Bishops sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.

I arrived the evening before the sessions and took the opportunity the next moring to walk the nature trails of the Campion Trail not far from the hotel (the climate is a bit different from Ottawa these days!)

The mood was very positive, at times upbeat, during the seminar, which was full of well-researched, prepared and presented issues in biomedical ethics under the rubric of: BIOETHICS THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH: SERVING CHRIST IN THE SICK AND VULNERABLE. Archbishop Gerhard Muller, new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith gave the keynote address on Tuesday evening.